Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album)
Manifest Destiny is the second album by The Dictators and their first after switching to the Asylum label. Trouser Press praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff originals".[4]
| Manifest Destiny | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1977 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, New York | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 37:50 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B[2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 10/10[3] |
Track listing
All songs written by Andy Shernoff except as indicated.
- Side one
- "Exposed" – 4:27
- "Heartache" – 3:37
- "Sleepin' with the TV On" – 4:16
- "Disease" – 6:26
- Side two
- "Hey Boys" (Scott Kempner, Andy Shernoff) – 3:02
- "Steppin' Out" – 5:47
- "Science Gone Too Far" – 3:27
- "Young, Fast, Scientific" – 3:22
- "Search & Destroy" (James Williamson, J.J. Osterberg) – 3:26 (The Stooges cover)
Personnel
- The Dictators
- Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals
- Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar
- Scott "Top Ten" Kempner – rhythm guitar
- Andy Shernoff – keyboards, lead & background vocals
- Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar
- Ritchie Teeter – drums, background vocals, lead vocals on "Sleeping with the TV On" and "Hey Boys"
- Additional musicians
- Petronius Wood – additional keyboards
- Production
- Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman – producers
- John Jansen – engineer
- Andy Abrams, Corky Stasiak, Gray Russell, Jay Krugman, Rod O'Brien, Thom Panunzio – assistant engineers
- Steve L. Schenck – production coordinator
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References
- Deming, Mark. "The Dictators Manifest Destiny review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: D". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1894959025.
- Robbins, Ira. "Dictators". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
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